Recently I ported Linux Mint Xia, running in a Debian trixie base, to arm64. I am working on a solution to get Linux Mint running in a VM like Parallels and UTM on silicon macs with almost native speed. A test version is ready and being tested. In the future, I will sell disk images for Parallels and UTM, maybe also VMWARE. These images will contain Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 (Gigi). Stay tuned for this.